There was a loop rug of an owl that hung in our basement, and my brother and cousin and some friends would play "dark hide-and-seek" and whenever I was "it" and would give up looking for them, they would tell me that there was a trap door behind it and that was why I could never find them...you don't know how many times I played hide-and-seek with my friends and could NEVER find that door!
A childhood belief about basements
others believed things like this
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that when I went to the mountain I would find an ancient monster or find some treasure— Yazer Solorzano
- I used to believe that hydrangeas were so called because rangers hide in them.— Ross
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- I used to think "Disney" was spelled D I S N E P. because they'd loop the "y" and it looked like a "p"! — Rebecca Sears
- I used to believe there was a secret door to the gremlin world hidden under my bed— Mel